En:start [Virtual Moon Atlas] Now used by more than 750 000 persons all over the world. Used in several books, magazines, observatories, universities, Web sites and blogs. Used in Chandrayaan 1 lunar mission preparation. Recommanded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the french Ministry of National Education Free software for Moon observation or survey For Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Seven/Windows 8 PC/Windows Mobile/MacOS/Linux © News November 2012 : New "Pro 6.0 / 10 th anniversary" version During 2002 first version of VMA was released.
And this year it was evident that we have to dedicate this new version to Neil A. NEW MODULES : New "VMA Command Center" : Because of the increasing modules numbers, VMA starts now with a “Command Center” allowing you to access directly to the various modules and associated documentations. The "Chang'e 2" texture : The chinese probe Chang'e 2 has mapped the lunar surface lunaire with a 50 m precision. How to support our action ? Christian Legrand et Patrick Chevalley Program description. Apollo 11 Launch at 500 Frames per Second. Annular Solar Eclipse over India. On January 15, 2010, the Moon passed between the Earth and the Sun. As the Moon blocked just the central portion of the Sun, people looking skyward would have seen a fiery ring around the Moon’s perimeter, what is known as an annular eclipse.
Looking down from space at 1:15 p.m. Calcutta time (7:45 UTC) on January 15, 2010, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite saw the Moon's shadow falling on India and the Bay of Bengal. The shadow spanned a north-south distance of about 300 kilometers (185 miles) on the surface, with the darkest part near the mid-point of the span. Even in the darkest part of the shadow, clouds are so reflective that the small amount of sunlight escaping around the edge of the moon’s disk is enough to illuminate them for MODIS’ view.
Farther north in India, closer to the shadow’s edge, the surface appears tea-colored. The shadow followed a roughly west-to-east arc from central Africa to eastern China. Instrument(s): Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. Apollo 11 Video Library. Apollo 17 Video Library. The Project Apollo Archive. Apollo Photographic Support Data. Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. Edited by Eric M. Jones and Ken Glover. Dedication: To Di and HP, the sources of my serenity;and to the memory of my uncle, Leslie M. Jones, who explored the upper atmosphere with rocket-borne instruments and excited my interest in space. The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal was inspired by the work of New Zealand historian J.C. Beaglehole, the 20th Century's foremost authority on the European exploration of the Pacific and, particularly, on the voyages of Captain James Cook. This 13 November 2013 release of the Journal contains all of the text for the six successful landing missions as well as many photos, maps, equipment drawings, background documents, voice tracks, and video clips which, we hope, will help make the lunar experience more accessible and understandable.
Resources Please don't hesitate to let us know about errors. Page design by Gordon Roxburgh and Brian Lawrence. Regretably, the ALSJ DVD-ROM is no longer available. NASA Host: Steve Garber. Apollo 11-17 First man on the Moon - Apollo Moon Landings QTVR photos from panoramas.dk. Less known is that during all the missions they made image sequences which with today's computer technics can be stitched together into 360o interactive panoramas giving you the possibility to view the moon almost as you were there. Many of these panoramas have been published before but in low resolution and displayed in small sizes. Film used on the Moon was a modified Kodak Ectachrome 160.
During the last years (2000-2005) the original films have been re-scanned in high resolution and the Apollo 11 images were released the week before the 35 year anniversary. I can now present you for the first time the Moon in interactive 360 degree full screen Quicktime VR. Stitching these images to make 360 degree panoramas is a difficult task as the astronauts did not know anything about interactive panoramas and the stitching methods which would come 25 years later. Besides stitching them to panoramas the images are kept as much as possible in their original All images are credit NASA Related Links:
A Meteoroid Hits the Moon. + Play Audio | + Download Audio | + Join mailing list June 13, 2006: There's a new crater on the Moon. It's about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old. NASA astronomers watched it form: "On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon's Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energyâthat's about the same as 4 tons of TNT," says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. "The impact created a bright fireball which we video-recorded using a 10-inch telescope. " Lunar impacts have been seen before--"stuff hits the Moon all the time," notes Cooke--but this is the best-ever recording of an explosion in progress: Above: A meteoroid hits the Moon, May 2, 2006; video-recorded by MSFC engineers Heather McNamara and Danielle Moser.
The video plays in 7x slow motion; otherwise the explosion would be nearly invisible to the human eye. If a rock like that hit Earth, it would never reach the ground. Author: Dr.